The Guardian
Coronavirus: nine reasons to be reassured
3 min read · From 2020 · Yes, Covid-19 is serious, but context is key and the world is well placed to deal with it · Shared by 140, including Niklaus Gerber, Merkstatt, Thomas Power, Gerd Leonhard, Dominik Allemann, Klaus Eck, Ayala Sherbow, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Annik Burgdorfer-Grolimund
The Verge
Facebook’s proposed regulations are just things it’s already doing
9 min read · From 2020 · And yet they’re still better than what some governments are proposing · Shared by 14, including Johannes Lenz, Dave deBronkart, Ayala Sherbow
The Guardian
Facebook is the authoritarians' platform of choice. Mark Zuckerberg, will you fix that?
3 min read · From 2020 · US senator Michael F Bennet’s open letter to the Facebook CEO on the need to rein in hate speech on the social media platform · Shared by 14, including Ayala Sherbow
adn.com
How conservatives learned to wield power inside Facebook
~17 min read · From 2020 · Facebook balked at removing misinformation after the 2016 election out of concern it would alienate conservatives. · Shared by 3, including Ayala Sherbow
theoddpost.com
Don’t let them off the hook: Why Social Media companies are responsible for fake news
~12 min read · From 2020 · Why social media is responsible for our fake news crisis. · Shared by 2, including Ayala Sherbow
Vox
How to delete what Facebook knows about your life outside of Facebook
5 min read · From 2020 · The "Off-Facebook Activity" tool lets you see — and somewhat control — what other sites and apps tell Facebook about you · Shared by 188, including Katja Evertz, Desmond Williams, Faik Ersoy, Stefan Diepolder, Mark Kaigwa, Matthias Lampe, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Ayala Sherbow, C̷͈̳̫͗͊̾had P̸̜͇̱̗̻̝̙͆͑͑͝͝ollitt, Merkstatt
The Economist
Facebook unveils details of its content-oversight board
4 min read · From 2020 · The social network prepares to hand decisions about contentious content to an independent arbiter · Shared by 22, including Azeem Azhar, Katja Evertz, Ayala Sherbow, Mathew Ingram
TNW
Facebook and Zuckerberg keep getting ‘freedom of expression’ wrong
3 min read · From 2020 · Facebook's digital panopticon creates a “chilling effect,” where people are afraid to exercise their freedom of expression. · Shared by 20, including Ayala Sherbow, TNW Top Stories, 🇺🇦 Neal Schaffer #StandWithUkraine, Rick Powell, Merkstatt
Harvard Business Review
Can Facebook’s Oversight Board Win People’s Trust?
4 min read · From 2020 · The company is pitching self-governance as a way to fix problems like hate speech and disinformation. · Shared by 24, including Mari Smith, Ayala Sherbow, Charles Duhigg, Nir Eyal, Robert Rose
Stratechery
Facebook’s Platform Opportunity
9 min read · From 2020 · Facebook is under pressure from all sides, but that actually means it has an opportunity to build the platform it has always wanted — in digital ads. · Shared by 58, including Lelio Simi, Katja Evertz, Michael Carroll, Scott Monty, Jonathan Kogan, Ayala Sherbow
Social Media Today
New Research Shows Facebook Still Holds Sway With Millennials and Gen Z [Infographic]
1 min read · From 2020 · New research has shown that while Facebook is the elder statesman of the social media landscape, younger users are still logging in at high rates. · Shared by 52, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Ayala Sherbow, Lara Burriesci, Andrew Hutchinson, Katja Evertz
Mashable
Malware, crypto scams, and boner pills: Facebook's had enough
2 min read · From 2019 · Facebook is taking a company to court over allegations it ran an elaborate, malware driven, ad-fraud scheme. · Shared by 20, including Ayala Sherbow, John Rampton, Merkstatt
Guardian politics
Uncovered: reality of how smartphones turned election news into chaos
6 min read · From 2019 · Groundbreaking research gives snapshot of world in which politics coverage is warped by social media algorithms and friendship groups · Shared by 80, including Javi Cantón, Ayala Sherbow, luis antónio santos, Liliane Ferrari ™, Mark Kaigwa, Lluís Codina, Merkstatt, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Mathew Ingram, Mark Little
dylanpaulus.com
How Facebook Avoids Ad Blockers
6 min read · From 2019 · Shared by 45, including David Hellmann, Ayala Sherbow, Chris Heilmann, Nils Hitze, Florian Hanke 🍎
Guardian Tech
Read Sacha Baron Cohen's scathing attack on Facebook in full: 'greatest propaganda machine in history'
~11 min read · From 2019 · In a speech, the actor argued that Facebook would have run ads by Hitler. Here are his remarks in full · Shared by 88, including Tiffany Shlain, Jane, Jochen Burkhard, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Austin Kleon, Merkstatt, Balaji Srinivasan, Ayala Sherbow, Steve Silberman, luis antónio santos
Guardian Australia
Inside the hate factory: how Facebook fuels far-right profit
~16 min read · From 2019 · Guardian investigation reveals a covert plot to control some of Facebook’s largest far-right pages and harvest Islamophobic hate for profit · Shared by 135, including Bjorn Larsen, luis antónio santos, Noely ⚡️🏐, Ayala Sherbow, Merkstatt, Mark Little, Brad Brooks, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦, Josep M. Ganyet, Matthias Lampe, Loughlin O'Nolan, Mathew Ingram, Faik Ersoy, Katja Evertz
